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| siomotteikiru Senior Member Zaire Joined 6173 days ago 102 posts - 242 votes  | Message 1 of 5 14 July 2007 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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http://www.komi.com/japanese/
It's in Russian, about a guy who knows 93 languages. There's no direct link there, click Статьи из интернетa then look for ЛЕГКО ЛИ ВЫУЧИТЬ СОТНЮ ЯЗЫКОВ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6251 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 5 15 July 2007 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
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Here's a direct link: http://www.komi.com/JAPANESE/from_int/polyglot.html.
The claims made are impressive, but some of the concrete parts are a bit dubious. An example is that the article says that Hawaiian has 24 vowels and 3 consonants. while Wikipedia says that there are 25 vowels (or 5 if long vowels and dipthongs aren't counted as separate) and 8 consonants. The polyglot also claims to speak American English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Canadian English; it's not clear if he's counting these as separate languages, as no complete list of languages is given. Canadian English most certainly is not "Frenglish", although it appears that a particular variant spoken around Montreal bears this name; I grew up in Canada without being aware of this. Nitpicks aside, it's quite an interesting article. (By the way, to those I've told I do not speak a word of Russian - it's true, and I can't even read Cyrillic. However, online translation tools plus a bit of familiarity with grammar in general go a long way. For anyone else in this category, a computer-generated translation can be found here; it's readable, but far from correct or idiomatic English.) Edited by Volte on 15 July 2007 at 3:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6198 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 3 of 5 15 July 2007 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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Some further 'facts' are to be found here:
http://anomalia.kulichki.ru/text8/074.htm seems a bit too much 'New Age' to be taken seriously, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| siomotteikiru Senior Member Zaire Joined 6173 days ago 102 posts - 242 votes | Message 4 of 5 15 July 2007 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
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All so called polygots I met always sounded suspicious to me, though quite a few were quite good at two or three languages.
But I like stories and the way they are growing into myths. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6409 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 5 18 July 2007 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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another article about him
I think I saw a TV-program about him, and linguists said he wasn't speaking the languages he claimed to speak... although I'm not sure, maybe that particular program was about a famous woman who has a similar story, I can't remember the details but she once fainted and after it she forgot Russian, but instead could "remember" something like 50 languages, she thinks she spoke them in her previous lives. [I wonder what's going to happen when I finally start learning Danish. When I was a child I could remember my previous life, and I lived in Denmark. That does sound odd, but my parents believe it's true, since I always told the story in the same way - not typical for children who're very imaginative and like adding something new and changing something...and I think that if I had really imagined that, I'd imagine I had been a beautiful princess in a wonderful castle, blablablabla..but according to what I told I lived in a children's home and died when I was still very young. I've read that most children who remember their past lives forget them when they're around 7 and it was the same in my case.] Edited by Serpent on 18 July 2007 at 8:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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